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Try our cryptic crossword

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ACROSS

1 Time to disarrange the luxury chocolate (7) 5 Conditions some school periods (5) 9 Start to see awful decor was etched deeply (6) 10 Sling a different TV communicat­ion (6) 11 Tries out religious ceremonies (5) 12 Pantomime girl burning leftovers (7) 14 Garbled lingo brought about change to false pride (9) 18 Came back and banked on parking restrictio­n (7) 20 Passive miner taken inside (5) 22 Month on shuttle round Asian island (6) 23 Lights to 100 vices (6) 24 Reel curls round (5) 25 Irish knees‑up? Maybe I lied in church (7)

DOWN

2 Flinch from wind again (6) 3 Ugly Betty actress following America (7) 4 Loud explosive game (4) 6 Moved slowly and guarded against loss, Cockney fashion (5) 7 Lean game wandering about (6) 8 Very small bone and very large implement, say (7) 13 See punk about party (5‑2) 15 Hopkirk’s live partner gives South African coin to everyone (7) 16 Get back engineers before military takeover (6) 17 Three‑legged stand – drop it to get smashed (6) 19 Girl given nothing but rope (5) 21 Came out top (4)

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